2025 was a big year for Marvel, which returned to form with three feature films after having only one movie in 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine. The first Marvel movie to come from 2025 was Captain America: Brave New World, the first solo film for Anthony Mackie after inheriting the mantle of the Star Spangled Man from Chris Evans. The final film for Marvel Studios in 2025 was The Fantastic Four: First Steps, starring Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn, all of whom are expected back later this year in Avengers: Doomsday. Sandwiched between Brave New World and F4 was Thunderbolts*, the critically acclaimed team-up film starring Florence Pugh and Sebastian Stan that was directed by Jake Schreier.
Schreier’s work with the MCU is far from done, though, as he’s confirmed to direct Marvel’s new X-Men movie coming sometime after Avengers: Secret Wars. Details about the project, such as casting and plot, are being kept under wraps, but it’s expected to premiere sometime in 2028. Collider‘s Steve Weintraub caught up with Schreier to chat about the second season of Beef, the hit Netflix series which Schreier directs, and he asked where he’s at developing Marvel‘s X-Men reboot.
“We’re still developing. You know, one of the exciting things that’s tying into Beef is that Sonny [Lee Sung Jin] and Joanna [Calo] both worked on this season. Obviously, I mean, Beef is Sonny’s show, and Joanna worked on the season as well, and we worked together on Season 1 of Beef and on Thunderbolts*. They have come in and are working on a draft right now, which is really exciting to be able to put that group of people together again.”
It’s official, folks. Beef creator Lee Sung Jin and The Bear scribe and co-showrunner Joanna Calo are writing Marvel‘s X-Men movie. Schreier also spoke about how much he loves “Sonny’s writing in Beef” and what he admires about him, which is “the ability to take small interpersonal dynamics and explode them into a much larger canvas,” which is going to be a core part of writing a great X-Men movie. He also admits how happy he is to have Lee and Calo on board, who are the creators of “two of the most interesting shows on television right now.”
He continued, “When you go back and read X-Men [comics], there’s ideology but also interpersonal drama, almost of a soap opera quality. Having writers who understand both how to drive ideology from personal stakes, if we get that right, that’s what will feel most honest to what X-Men can be.” When it comes to the traditional Marvel secrecy, Schreier is keeping things as tight-lipped as you’d expect someone working on such a high-profile MCU project: “We’ll film in a little black box and never leave. But seriously, the studio has experience with this. We’ve talked about it, but I can’t say anymore.”
Which X-Men Are Going To Be in ‘Avengers: Doomsday’?
It was around this time that year that Marvel Studios went live on YouTube for hours to reveal the Avengers: Doomsday cast — at least part of it — by showing a series of chairs. Fans were stunned when it was announced that Fox X-Men stars like Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen were confirmed to return as Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto, respectively. Even James Marsden, Rebecca Romjin, Alan Cumming, and Kelsey Grammer are confirmed to return as Scott Summers, Mystique, Nightcrawler, and Beast. There are certainly more mutants in store to appear in Doomsday, like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine and Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, who are being held under wraps. The full cast won’t be revealed until the film hits theaters later this year on December 18.
via Collider